Researchers achieve record-breaking energies with help of BELLA

December 9, 2014 11:18 AM

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The US department of Energy researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab broke scientific world record by using the most powerful lasers on Earth to accelerate electrons through a 9cm tube of plasma.

The research team used a compact particle accelerator, a small, inches-long device to accelerate subatomic particles to the highest energies.